"Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor Center The Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor Center is a museum dedicated to Mildred ""Babe"" Didrikson Zaharias that is located in Beaumont, Texas. Fronting on Interstate 10, it is freely open to the public Monday through Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm. The museum consists largely of trophies and awards that Zaharias accumulated during her career, as well as memorabilia, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The museum also functions as a visitor center for Beaumont. Money raised by the museum helps fund scholarships for female students at Lamar University. Described by George E."
"authorities when they sought to adopt. Didrikson gained world fame in track and field and All-American status in basketball. She played organized baseball and softball and was an expert diver, roller-skater, and bowler. Didrikson's first job after high school was as a secretary for the Employers' Casualty Insurance Company of Dallas, though she was employed only in order to play basketball as an amateur on the company's ""industrial team"", the Golden Cyclones. As a side note, the competition was then governed by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). Despite leading the team to an AAU Basketball Championship in 1931, Didrikson had"
"support cancer clinics. She is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in her hometown of Beaumont, Texas. During her final years, Didrikson became known not only for her athletic abilities but as a public advocate for cancer awareness, at a time when many Americans refused to seek diagnosis or treatment for suspected cancer. She used her fame to raise funds for her cancer fund but also as a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society. Her work in this area was honored by US President Dwight Eisenhower on a visit to the White House. She was named the 10th Greatest North American"
"Mildred Sanderson Mildred Sanderson (1889–1914) was an American mathematician, best known for her mathematical theorem concerning modular invariants. Sanderson was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1889 and was the valedictorian of her class at the Waltham High School. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1910, winning Senior Honors in Mathematics. She obtained her Ph.D degree from the University of Chicago in 1913, publishing the thesis in which she set forth her mathematical theorem. She was Leonard Eugene Dickson's first female doctoral student. Dickson later wrote of her thesis, ""This paper is a highly important contribution to this field of"
"Mildred Dixon Mildred Dixon (November 21, 1904 –September 18, 2001) was a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem who became a longtime companion of composer and musician Duke Ellington, and manager of his company. She was born in Boston to parents from Africville, Nova Scotia. She became a dancer and moved to New York in the mid-1920s, where she became known as part of the dance couple, ""Mildred and Henri."" Mildred Dixon was born and grew up in Boston, where she attended local schools. Her parents had emigrated from Africville, Nova Scotia. They were descendants of Black Loyalists, freed"
"later. She shot 81 and 84, and missed the cut. In the tournament, she was teamed with George Zaharias. They were married eleven months later, and settled in Tampa, Florida, on the premises of a golf course that they purchased in 1951. Didrikson became America's first female golf celebrity and the leading player of the 1940s and early 1950s. In order to regain amateur status in the sport, she could compete in no other sports for three years. She gained back her amateur status in 1942. In 1945, she had participated in three more PGA Tour events, missing the second"
"June Laverick June Laverick (born 11 June 1931, Redcar, North Yorkshire) is a retired English film, television and stage actress. She was once described as ""a popular lightweight leading actress of the day"" and is probably best remembered as the fictional wife of Dickie Henderson in ""The Dickie Henderson Show"". Before June was born her parents ran a public house in Bishop Auckland but then returned to Redcar to run The Royal Hotel on the sea front near Redcar Pier. In 1931, Laverick was born in Laburnum Road, Redcar. In her youth June attended White House school and ballet school."
"had innate class comparable to Ellington’s own."" Their relationship ended after he became involved with someone else. Mildred Dixon Mildred Dixon (November 21, 1904 –September 18, 2001) was a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem who became a longtime companion of composer and musician Duke Ellington, and manager of his company. She was born in Boston to parents from Africville, Nova Scotia. She became a dancer and moved to New York in the mid-1920s, where she became known as part of the dance couple, ""Mildred and Henri."" Mildred Dixon was born and grew up in Boston, where she attended"
"episode. June Laverick June Laverick (born 11 June 1931, Redcar, North Yorkshire) is a retired English film, television and stage actress. She was once described as ""a popular lightweight leading actress of the day"" and is probably best remembered as the fictional wife of Dickie Henderson in ""The Dickie Henderson Show"". Before June was born her parents ran a public house in Bishop Auckland but then returned to Redcar to run The Royal Hotel on the sea front near Redcar Pier. In 1931, Laverick was born in Laburnum Road, Redcar. In her youth June attended White House school and ballet"
"of the five Olympic qualifying events and three of the five additional individual AAU events; she took part in all of the Trials events, the only athlete ever to do so. She represented Employers Casualty of Dallas, Texas, who won the women's team championship despite not entering any other athletes; Employers Casualty scored 30 points, while the Illinois Women's Athletic Club placed second with 22 points. Although some of Didrikson's marks were cited as ""world records"" in both contemporary and later sources, she did not set any official world records at the 1932 Trials; some of her marks were superior"
"first achieved wider attention as a track and field athlete. Representing her company in the 1932 AAU Championships, she competed in eight out of ten events, winning five outright, and tying for first in a sixth. Didrikson's performances were enough to win the team championship, despite her being the sole member of her team. Didrikson won two gold medals and one silver medal for track and field in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. In the 80-meter hurdles, she equaled the world record of 11.8 seconds in her opening heat. In the final, she broke her record with an 11.7 clocking,"
"Mary Cynthia Dickerson Mary Cynthia Dickerson (1866–1923) was an American herpetologist and the first curator of herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History, as well as the first curator in the now defunct department of Woods and Forestry. For ten years she was the editor of ""The American Museum Journal"", which was renamed ""Natural History"" during her editorship. She published two books: ""Moths and Butterflies"" (1901) and ""The Frog Book"" (1906) as well as numerous popular and scientific articles. She described over 20 species of reptiles and is commemorated in the scientific names of four lizards. Mary Cynthia Dickerson"
"Glenda Dickerson Glenda Dickerson (February 9, 1945 – January 12, 2012) was an iconic director, folklorist, adaptor, writer, choreographer, actor, black theatre organizer, and educator. She is known throughout the American Theater as a promoter of a ""womanist"" direction in the theater and her work focused on folklore, myths, black legends, and classical works reinterpreted. She worked in venues including the Biltmore Theatre (Broadway), Circle in the Square (New York City), The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco), Ford's Theatre and the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.). In 1971, Dickerson received an Emmy nomination and in 1972 a Peabody Award. She conceived"
"middle of those trials. After getting her degree in Engineering, she went to the Harvard Business School. In 2015, she returned to her alma-mater high school as an assistant coach before her death. Marianne Dickerson Marianne Dickerson (November 14, 1960 – October 14, 2015) was a female long-distance runner from the United States. Dickerson was born in St. Joseph, Illinois. She was a star runner first at St. Joseph-Ogden High School, at then the University of Illinois after a stint on a track scholarship to the University of Michigan. Against the advice of her coach, she entered a Missouri race,"
"medals at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, track star Mildred ""Babe"" Didrikson appeared in an automobile advertisement, and the Brundage-led AAU quickly suspended her amateur status. Didrikson objected that she had not been paid and that regardless, the rules for maintaining amateur status were overcomplex. In the first of several well-publicized run-ins he had with female athletes, Brundage replied that he had not had any problem with the rules when an Olympic athlete himself, and stated, ""You know, the ancient Greeks kept women out of their athletic games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not"
"most notably wax casting to create life like models and create a more integrated exhibit. Dickerson described over 20 new species of reptiles, including the San Esteban chuckwalla and the Cuban sharp-nosed amphisbaena. She is commemorated in the names of four lizard species or subspecies: ""Cnemaspis dickersonae"", ""Aspidoscelis tigris dickersonae"", ""Holbrookia maculata dickersonae"", and ""Crotaphytus dickersonae"". By around 1919, Dickerson was showing signs of mental disturbance, attributed to the stress of holding dual curatorial and editorial duties. Her behavior became erratic, and she experienced auditory hallucinations of the Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, an associate of the Museum, to whom she"
"over the system of government in relation to her missionary work. In fact, she proposed friendly relationships between the United States and Japan to defeat communism as a common enemy. Dickson founded the interdenominational Mustard Seed International (MSI) to support her missionary work, which included caring for orphans in Formosa. She founded several orphanages and children's homes, describing herself as ""the old woman who lived in a shoe—only I've got more shoes."" She helped establish MSI-sponsored kindergartens, elementary, middle and high schools. Furthermore, her work has led to Bible college and seminary training for pastors, lay leaders and church planting"
"Mildred Jordan Mildred Jordan (March 18, 1901 – October 23, 1982) was an American author and playwright. Born in Chicago, she worked at the Hull House before relocating to Reading, Pennsylvania after her marriage. Her first novel, ""One Red Rose Forever"", which was based on the history of Lancaster County, was rejected by twenty-two publishers before finally appearing in 1941. Her subsequent books often focused on the lives of Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants to America. Public reaction to Jordan's work was mixed. While a 1954 review of her play ""The Wonderful Cornelia"" referred to her as ""one of the nation's best-known"
"penned seventeen articles on Methodism in Northeast Louisiana for ""The Bastrop Daily Enterprise"". She was affiliated with Delta Kappa Gamma and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mildred and her husband, William McKinley Nolan (1899-1978), had three sons, John Travis Nolan (1929-1937), namesake of his grandfather whom he never knew, died at the age of eight; the Reverend William Earl Nolan (born July 1931) of Shreveport, and Charles Henry Nolan (1938-1956), who died at the age of seventeen. John Travis Nixon John Travis Nixon (July 6, 1867 – February 8, 1909) was a journalist and publisher in several American cities,"
"immigrants from Norway. Although her three eldest siblings were born in Norway, Babe and her three other siblings were born in Port Arthur. She later changed the spelling of her surname from Didriksen to Didrikson. She moved with her family to 850 Doucette in Beaumont, Texas, at age 4. She claimed to have acquired the nickname ""Babe"" (after Babe Ruth) upon hitting five home runs in a childhood baseball game, but her Norwegian mother had called her ""Bebe"" from the time she was a toddler. Though best known for her athletic gifts, Didrikson had many talents. She also competed in"
"diversity as part of the University's mission. Dickerson died in Ypsilanti, Michigan, aged 66, on January 12, 2012. She was survived by her daughter, Anitra Y. Dickerson Duncan, and extended family. Glenda Dickerson Glenda Dickerson (February 9, 1945 – January 12, 2012) was an iconic director, folklorist, adaptor, writer, choreographer, actor, black theatre organizer, and educator. She is known throughout the American Theater as a promoter of a ""womanist"" direction in the theater and her work focused on folklore, myths, black legends, and classical works reinterpreted. She worked in venues including the Biltmore Theatre (Broadway), Circle in the Square (New"
"Nancy Walker Nancy Walker (May 10, 1922 – March 25, 1992) was an American actress and comedian of stage, screen, and television. She was also a film and television director (such as of ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"", on which she also made several guest appearances). During her five-decade long career, she may be best remembered for her long-running roles as Mildred on ""McMillan & Wife"" and Ida Morgenstern, who first appeared on several episodes of ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"" and later became a prominent recurring character on the spinoff series ""Rhoda"". Walker was born in 1922 as Anna"
"Mildred Benson Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson (July 10, 1905 – May 28, 2002) was an American journalist and author of children's books. She wrote some of the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries and created the detective's adventurous personality. Benson wrote under the Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name, Carolyn Keene, from 1929 to 1947 and contributed to 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew mysteries, which were bestsellers. Mildred Benson was born Mildred Augustine in Ladora, Iowa to Lillian and Dr. J. L. Augustine. Benson earned her degree in English from the University of Iowa in 1925 in just three years. She later"
"Mildred Clinton Mildred Clinton (November 2, 1914 – December 18, 2010) was an American actress. Clinton had a supporting part in ""Serpico"" (1973), and starred in the 1976 horror film ""Alice, Sweet Alice"". In her later career she frequently collaborated with director Spike Lee, appearing in small parts in his films ""Crooklyn"" (1994), ""Summer of Sam"" (1999), and ""Bamboozled"" (2000). Clinton was born in 1914 in Brooklyn, New York City. She had her first film role in ""The Trapp Family in America"" (1958), and later appeared in Sidney Lumet's ""Serpico"" (1973), playing the mother Frank Serpico (portrayed by Al Pacino)."
"supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election Thomas S. Hischak. ""The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: theatre, film, and television"" (June 2008), Oxford University Press, USA () Nancy Walker Nancy Walker (May 10, 1922 – March 25, 1992) was an American actress and comedian of stage, screen, and television. She was also a film and television director (such as of ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"", on which she also made several guest appearances). During her five-decade long career, she may be best remembered for her long-running roles as Mildred on ""McMillan & Wife"" and Ida Morgenstern, who"
"Nancy Dickerson Nancy Dickerson (January 19, 1927 – October 18, 1997) was a pioneering American radio and television journalist. As famous as a celebrity and socialite as she was for her journalism, she later became an independent producer of documentaries. Born Nancy Conners Hanschman in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, Nancy Dickerson first attended Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, for two years before moving on to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she earned a degree in education in 1948. She worked as a grade school teacher in Milwaukee, before moving to Washington, D.C. in 1951. She took courses in"
"Mildred Kornman Mildred Kornman (born July 10, 1925), also known as Ricki VanDusen, is an American former child actress and model. Mildred, the younger sister of Mary Kornman, leading lady of the silent film ""Our Gang"" series, was featured as a regular in the series from 1926–1928 and made more appearances from 1929 until 1935. She had no speaking roles and appeared when many children were needed for a scene such as a classroom. Mildred appeared in many ""Our Gang"" short subject, and she later achieved fame as an adult fashion model under the name Ricki VanDusen. Both Mildred and"
"field to end the inning. Didrikson was relieved at the start of the second inning by Cardinal pitcher Bill Hallahan. 400 fans were in attendance. Three days later, on March 25, 1934, she played for the New Orleans Pelicans against the Cleveland Indians, pitching two scoreless innings and lining out in her only plate appearance. Didrikson is still recognized as the world record holder for the farthest baseball throw by a woman. Zaharias had her greatest year in 1950 when she completed the Grand Slam of the three women's majors of the day: the U.S. Open, the Titleholders Championship, and"
"Marianne Dickerson Marianne Dickerson (November 14, 1960 – October 14, 2015) was a female long-distance runner from the United States. Dickerson was born in St. Joseph, Illinois. She was a star runner first at St. Joseph-Ogden High School, at then the University of Illinois after a stint on a track scholarship to the University of Michigan. Against the advice of her coach, she entered a Missouri race, a portion of the inaugural Avon Marathon series. Winning the race qualified her for the series championship in Los Angeles, where she placed second behind Julie Brown. That race served as the qualifier"
"then shot a 307 in the tournament and finished tied for 42nd. Unlike other female golfers competing in men's events, she got into the Los Angeles and Tucson Opens through 36-hole qualifiers, as opposed to a sponsor's exemption. In 1948, she became the first woman to attempt to qualify for the U.S. Open, but her application was rejected by the USGA. They stated that the event was intended to be open to men only. On March 20, 1934, Didrikson pitched one inning in a major league baseball spring training exhibition game for the Philadelphia Athletics against the Brooklyn Dodgers. She"
"Muriel Dickson Muriel Dickson (12 July 1903 – 11 March 1990) was a Scottish soprano who was particularly known for her performances in the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. After performing with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for seven years, she sang for four seasons with the Metropolitan Opera and went on to a concert career. In later years, she taught singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and privately. Born Constance Muriel Dickson in Edinburgh, she studied singing in Florence, Italy with Luigi Ricci. In March 1928 she became a member of the D'Oyly Carte Opera"
"Adele Dixon Adele Dixon (born Adela Helena Dixon; 3 June 1908 – 11 April 1992) was an English actress and singer. After an early start as a child actress, and training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she became a member of the Old Vic, from 1928 to 1930, appearing in a wide range of roles, predominantly in Shakespeare's plays, but also those of Sheridan, Molière and Shaw. Her performance in her first singing role so impressed the composer Richard Addinsell, that he secured her the leading role in the West End adaptation of Priestley's ""The Good Companions"" in"
"sawmill worker originally from Texas, and the former Addie Graham (1891-1979) in Fullerton in Vernon Parish, Louisiana in western Louisiana. She grew up in nearby Oakdale in Allen Parish. She attended Northwestern State University (then College) in Natchitoches on a scholarship recommended by one of her Oakdale High School teachers, Bill Dodd, later the Louisiana lieutenant governor and state superintendent of education. Miss Dickerson received her bachelor's degree in 1941. She was a social worker in Allen Parish from 1941 to 1943, while she also obtained a diploma in social work in 1943 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge."